DIY Green Solar Energy

The HCT-Wharton Innovation Tournament, held this past Monday and Tuesday in Dubai, challenged entrepreneurs to produce innovative solutions to enhance sustainability by reducing the effects of greenhouse gases, or controlling consumption of non-renewable energy resources. The winning team, KarmSolar, won AED 40000 (~800) for their innovative solar energy-based water pumping solution. By helping farmers pump and conserve water through a solar-powered management system, it aims to transform economies by reducing dependence on diesel as well as food imports. Watch their reactions to the win and what’s next.

Clayton Christensen, professor at the Harvard Business School, compares factors such as demand, disruption and non-consumption that determine the viability of solar energy in different regions around the world. View more of the series at phoenix.edu

For more info please visit diysolarheating.blogspot.com Easiest passive solar heater, This DIY Solar Water Heater can be done by anyone at home, Cheapest Solar and Easiest Solar ,as easy as joining two ends of pipe, and presto! Our basic idea of putting this innovative Solar Water Heater on YouTube is to make people understand the simplest way to store the heat energy of the sun for everyday use. Everyone knows if one puts anything under the sun, it starts getting hot slowly irrespective of the ambient temperature. It can be freezing cold or extremely hot, the free energy of the sun goes wasted unless it is tapped and stored. There are many different ways to tap the solar energy for heating mainly for domestic use, the very first step to harness the free energy. The normal solar panel a regular house hold item of the urban areas are far too complicated if one starts building on his own, He shall end up going to the vendor as it requires a mini workshop setup, with welding machines and other piping accessories tools. The vacuum tube solar is an amazing product though, but it requires even bigger investment for simple assembly itself at home. These high end technologies not yet very complicated by the present advancement of science are like mirage if one goes to the rural setup of remote areas in so many parts across the globe. The distinction of this innovative Solar Water Heater and the rest of the solar water heater lie in the fact that it requires a very little …

We have almost concluded the series of experiments with bigger innovative absorber panel for home heating innovation DIY. The innovative black pipe absorber panel shall reduce the cost of home heating to a bare minimum. Our trail work with this immensely large panel 100 sft with 100m black pipe roll is finished. We have observed dramatic improvement on efficiency with the larger panel almost equal to the normal GI pipe and plate solar with 3/4 of the panel size. The gain was almost 33c form lowest ambient air temperature of 2.8C . This is our 3rd day of experiment with approximately 3 hours of good sunshine in Kathmandu Jan-16 2012. And we are very happy to make the announcement for our future runs and improvements on the insulation of the panel and other things. This would be a big milestone on the very simple DIY innovation with black pipe. We shall publish other relevant details as soon as possible…with the comparative chart of temperature gain with normal plate solar of 3/4 panel size with same storage capacity in a week time. We are taking advantage of the coldest time of the year to really know the merits of this work for everyone benefit. We are really encouraged by the results of its performance. We have found manifold efficiency from our earlier circular panel of smaller dimensions. We are sure this shall help to conserve energy to the extreme at every ones yard with few pennies. We shall have one illustrative meeting with Nepal Travelers association in a week …

This is a part of series with our home heating innovation DIY. The innovative black pipe absorber panel shall reduce the cost of home heating to a bare minimum. Our trial works for the solar heat collector and distribution system is almost complete. But this time we have increased the absorber panel size to 100 sft instead of usual 6′ dia panel, which is almost approximately 4 times more. We shall publish other relevant details as soon as possible…but this one includes some on site modification for better performance. We are sure this shall help conserve energy to the extreme, truely a friendly DIY item for so many around the globe. This work is an elaboration of our GE ecomagination entry challenge.ecomagination.com Highly illustrative Plastic Barrel solar video our latest posting www.youtube.com

This is a part of series with our home heating innovation DIY. The innovative black pipe absorber panel shall reduce the cost of home heating to a bare minimum. Our trial works for the solar heat collector and distribution system is almost complete. We shall publish other relevant details as soon as possible. The unique heat dissipating unit for the house interior in itself is also big innovation complete with black pipe and aluminium foil. We are sure this shall help conserve energy to the extreme a friendly DIY item for so many around the globe. We thought addition of aluminium foil with black topping may enhance its heat absorption capacity to a large extent, unfortunately it did not work that well. May be the linear flow of the heat in the foil juxtaposed the spiral flow of the liquid in the pipe tubing. The moderate solar gain was there, but it was far lesser then the optimum gain of say 30-35C in our usual system.

www.ntv.co.ke In Narok,a group of engineers of a very different kinds have just landed and they are literally lighting up the manyattas. The five grandmothers were trained in India on basic solar lighting solutions and now they are beginning to prove their mettle. NTV’s Francis Mutegi caught with the village engineers.

Champion of Change event honors ordinary Americans who are doing extraordinary things in their communities to out innovate, out educate, and out build the rest of the world. November 3, 2011.

www.emcsolar.com.au A company developing a system that allows the Suns energy to be stored during the day, and to be able to generate electricity at night. Proudly produced in association with http

IT and bio-tech vcs struggle to evaluate clean technology. Watch more here: www.businessinsider.com